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Program of Events Uniting learners through social justice, global citizenship, and FEBRUARY 19, 2016 FEBRUARY 20, 2016 10:00am Doors open: refreshments 10:00am Doors open: refreshments creative solution-building 10:30am Opening remarks 10:30am Opening remarks

KDocs is KPU’s very own Documentary Film Festival, led by learners and educators DRONE FOOD CHAIN$ from all of KPU’s communities. KDocs contributes to KPU’s engagement of various 10:45am Keynote address: 10:45am Keynote address: and varied communities, through documentary screenings and community dialogue, in Brandon Bryant Pablo Godoy critical thinking and understanding about ourselves, our communities, and our world. 11:00am film: Drone 11:00am film: Food Chain$ As a premier event in Metro Vancouver, KDocs celebrates the power of documentary 12:30pm Panel Discussion/Q&A 12:30pm Panel Discussion/Q&A film. Working in partnership with the Vancouver International Film Centre/Vancity 1:30pm Break: Refreshments 1:30pm Break: Refreshments Theatre, KDocs showcases award-winning documentary films, speakers, filmmakers, panelists, exhibitors, and community members. Participants engage in lively discussion, THE MASK YOU LIVE IN IVORY TOWER debate, and dialogue as they investigate today’s most pressing global issues. 2:00pm Keynote address: 2:00pm Keynote address: Over 750 people are expected to attend KDocs 2016, including KPU students, David Hatfield Kathy Corrigan employees, and partners, as well as the larger KPU community and general public. 2:15pm film: The Mask You Live In 2:15pm film: Ivory Tower With this audience, KDocs will provoke engagement, dialogue, and creativity, 4:00pm Panel Discussion/Q&A 4:00pm Panel Discussion/Q&A stimulating a critical examination of our complex world. Indeed, it is this kind of interdisciplinary dialogue—within and across KPU’s many communities—that 5:00pm Break: Refreshments 5:00pm Break: Refreshments makes KPU exactly the kind of institution where critical debate flourishes and global PEACE OFFICER FRACTURED LAND citizenship takes flight. 5:30pm Keynote address: 5:30pm Keynote address: William "Dub" Lawrence Caleb Behn 5:45pm film: Peace Officer 5:45pm film: Fractured Land 7:30pm Panel Discussion/Q&A 7:30pm Panel Discussion/Q&A 8:30pm Adjournment 8:30pm Adjournment

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The KDocs Team Janice Morris, Founder & Festival Director Greg Chan, Board Member/ Outreach Coordinator My love of film is equaled only by my love of students and learning, so KDocs is Like my KDocs colleagues, my fascination with the moving image began early on; the perfect way for me to truly do what I love in every way. When not for me, it was when I started memorizing the names of the James Bond villains—a organizing KDocs, I am incredibly fortunate and grateful to teach critical useless skill set, I have since been told—while reading anything having to do with reading, writing, and thinking at KPU, a place I have called home since 2006. cinema history. Working in the projection booth at UBC's SUB Theatre by day and My other research interests include graphic novels, visual culture, film studies, ushering at the Granville 7 Cinemas by night set the tone for what was to come media studies, and critical approaches to historicizing and theorizing when I began teaching at KPU in 1995. While I teach composition and literature “holocomics”—graphic novels and representations of the Holocaust. Outside courses, I have always incorporated film—documentaries in particular—into the of work, I am a huge hockey fan (Go Canucks!) who enjoys travel, cycling, curriculum. Now a film studies specialist, I teach upper-level English courses on film and binge-watching my favourite TV series. I am so proud of the KDocs team. criticism, film history, and film theory; publish my research in peer-reviewed journals; [email protected] present and moderate at film and media studies conferences; and edit the forth- coming publication, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration, KPU's official film studies journal. Please don't ask me if the book is better than the movie. [email protected]

Manon Boivin, Board Member Mark Diotte, Board Member I am a video production specialist with over 20 years of journalism and Since working at a video rental store in the 1990s, I have loved the film genre— broadcasting experience. My career has taken me through television from action and adventure to documentary—and I am happy to have joined newsrooms with the CBC and Global, offering my experience as an the KDocs team in 2015. KDocs combines my love of film with my passion for independent in project research and development, script and story writing, engaging in issues that concern the Lower Mainland community and British production management, producing, field directing, and more. I also hold a Columbia as a whole. My professional interests include the literature of British growing corporate portfolio, serving clients who desire personalized, high-end Columbia and Canada, labour literature, and teaching reading and writing. video content that tells their story. I have always been a passionate mentor to [email protected] aspiring journalists and digital storytellers. Sharing my love for this art form and my craft as a filmmaker has taken me into a new and exciting direction. I am presently creating and delivering tailored journalism and video production workshops aimed at learners of all ages. [email protected]

Inderpal Brar, Board Member/In-Reach Coordinator Chris Traynor, Board Member I am a third-year political science student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. My love of film started as a child. My father worked as a theatre manager, and At KPU, I am a director with the Kwantlen Public Interest Research Group through his influence, I learned to love movies. I really enjoy great documentary (KPIRG), where I am an active participant in the Fossil Free Kwantlen campaign, films and great cinematography, as each challenges us to see the world more and I am one of the co-founders of “Eternal Sustainability,” a project blog that closely through someone else’s eyes. I grew up on Vancouver Island and joined KPU promotes and researches environment solutions in BC through business and in 2011. In teaching university writing, I get the daily opportunity to learn from and activism. Most recently, I volunteered with the NDP Party during the 2015 election share ideas with the great students at KPU. I joined the KDocs team in 2015. Aside cycle. Through my various activities, I have seen how students nowadays voice from teaching, I love to play sports, hike, travel, and enjoy a good craft beer while their opinions about social justice through non-traditional channels such as social watching baseball (Go Blue Jays!). media, videos, and film, while also learning about formal theories in school. The [email protected] reason why I joined KDocs is because it bridges the gap between Kwantlen teachers, students, and the community, providing a 21st century space to talk and learn about important issues through film. [email protected] KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

"Inside the secret CIA drone war. Intimate stories from Special Guest: the war on terror. People living under drones in Pakistan and drone pilots struggling with killing through joysticks in the US. The film covers diverse and integral Brandon Bryant ground from the recruitment of young pilots at gaming The founder of Project Red Hand, Brandon joined the US conventions and the re-definition of ‘going to war,’ to Air Force in 2005, started training for the drone program the moral stance of engineers behind the technology, the April 12th of 2006, flew his first mission on December 3rd of world leaders giving the secret ‘green light’ to engage that year, and fired his first hellfire shot on January 26th the in the biggest targeted killing program in history, and following year. After leaving active duty on July 4th of 2011, the people willing to stand up against the violations of he was the first drone operator to publicly speak out about civil liberties and fight for transparency, accountability the realities of the program. Seen on Democracy Now, CNN, and justice. This is just the beginning. In the midst of fast Fox, published in GQ, Time Magazine, and collaborating on advancement of technology and lagging international the first article by The Intercept, Brandon seeks to answer legislation the film shows how drones change wars and all questions and get as much information to the public as possibly our future." possible. Before Drone, he was a part of Robert Greenwald’s dronethedocumentary.com documentary Unmanned. He has spoken in front of the Security Council, schools, and parliaments across Europe. He advocates for transparency, questioning the nature of justice, open access to the Internet, and veteran support. Filmmakers: projectredhand.org/ director Tonje Hessen Schei producer Lars Løge producer Jonathan Borge Lie director of photography Anna Myking film editor Joakim Schager composer Olav Øyehaug KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

Panelist: Panelist: Dan Lett Wade Deisman Dan Lett is a member of faculty in the Department of Criminology at Dr. Wade Deisman is a social scientist, educator, activist, media pundit and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Since 2005, Dan has researched the spread provocateur, and public advocate. He teaches courses in criminological theory, of surveillance cameras and other technological approaches to crime control policing, and national security and intelligence at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Canada. Dan’s work is published in academic journals including Canadian and is the host of the weekly radio show “Intersections” on Roundhouse Radio. Prior Journal of Sociology, Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Media, Culture and Society. to moving to the Lower Mainland, he was a professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and the Director of the Ottawa-based National Security Working Group. Wade’s research kpu.ca/arts/criminology interests range from a fascination with all things theoretical to a more substantive focus on terrorism and violent extremism, surveillance, and Anonymous. He worked for the Law Commission of Canada and the Atlantic Institute for Criminology and has conducted research for the RCMP and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. He is a passionate teacher and an ardent proponent of community-based education. He is an Panelist: outspoken advocate of criminal justice reform and an incorrigible interlocutor of the public good. He is a frequent commentator in the news and television media and has appeared in a range of programs including CBC’s Canada Now, Question Period, The National, Canada AM, CTV Newsnet, The Current, Dispatches, BC Candace Marshall Today, Ontario Today, Ottawa Morning, Global National, A-Channel, and CPAC. Candace Marshall is completing the second year of her PhD in Counselling Psychology at UBC and continues to work in private practice as a Certified kpu.ca/arts/criminology Canadian Counsellor at Stewart & Associates in Vancouver. Clinically, Candace is roundhouseradio.com/Senseofplace.aspx currently developing an expertise in trauma repair using Therapeutic Enactment and group counselling, with specific interests in working with individuals challenged by PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Her current research interests are focused on interdisciplinary group-based modalities for trauma repair and were inspired by her work this year as a clinical lead and performer with Man/Art/Action (a Movember-funded men’s mental health initiative that sought to provide veterans the opportunity to engage with the public regarding their challenges and experiences of transitioning back to civilian life through storytelling and performance).

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"The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they Special Guest: struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our protagonists David Hatfield confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their David Hatfield is a leadership consultant and facilitator specializing emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade in the design and delivery of transformative, experiential women, and resolve conflicts through violence. These gender education. His long-standing areas of focus are masculinity, stereotypes interconnect with race, class, and circumstance, conflict transformation and rites of passage. David also teaches creating a maze of identity issues boys and young men must group facilitation and instructs improvisational a cappella singing. navigate to become ‘real’ men. Experts in neuroscience, In 2009, he founded Manology: Exploring 21st Century Masculinity, psychology, sociology, sports, education, and media also weigh an ongoing, experiential course for men, and sometimes for in, offering empirical evidence of the ‘boy crisis’ and tactics to women and all-genders. David is the Canadian Coordinator for combat it. The Mask You Live In ultimately illustrates how we, as a International Men’s Day and produced Canada’s first IMD event society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men." in 2010. He has explored male issues and experiences with over 20,000 boys and men in seven nations on four continents. He is propelled by the urgency of 21st century themaskyoulivein.org challenges and the pervasive need for transformative change for which they are calling. He draws deep inspiration both from nature and from the feedback and response patterns of those to whom he has been in service. David's program design and leadership have been contracted across Canada and Filmmakers: internationally since 1997. He holds an M.Ed. in Social Ecology from the University of Western Sydney director, writer, & producer Executive Producer and is currently completing an M.A. in Process Oriented Facilitation and Conflict Studies at the Process Jennifer Siebel Newsom Geralyn Dreyfous Work Institute. David lives in Vancouver, where he has been a cycle commuter since 1992. director, writer, & producer Executive Producer Jessica Congdon Sarah E. Johnson davidhatfield.ca/ producer Executive Producer manologyvancouver.com/ Jessica Anthony Wendy Schmidt cinematographer Executive Producer John Behrens Regina K. Scully composer Executive Producer Eric Holland Maria Shriver Executive Producer Abigail Disney KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

Panelist: Panelist: Sue Ann Cairns Jay Wade Dr. Sue Ann Cairns has taught English and Interdisciplinary Studies at universities For over a decade, Jay Wade has independently and collaboratively facilitated youth throughout Canada and the United States, including UBC, SFU, Western Washington and adults in programs that challenge people to explore the world within them and University, and KPU, where she been since 1990. She has co-authored a writing textbook the world around them. Jay worked as a wildlife biologist before transitioning into used throughout Canada: Strategies for Successful Writing, now in its 6th edition. Sue Ann's facilitating outdoor programs for school boards, governments, and independent education interest in issues related to gender is both professional and personal. Her dissertation was a feminist psychoanalytic organizations. Still passionate about connecting people to nature, Jay also immerses himself in continuing courses analysis of the mother-daughter relationship in women's novels, and she has taught and written about women's on relationship building, communication, gender, and sexuality that allow him to expand the breadth of the literature. However, when her son was struggling in school and elsewhere, she began to focus more on challenges programs he now facilitates. Jay lives in Vancouver and leads an ongoing young men's group at a high school affecting young males in our culture. Through her encounters with the Langley school system, she met the exploring healthy views of masculinity. Each summer, Jay also helps coordinate the Pearson Seminar on Youth counselor Barry MacDonald, who spoke eloquently about the contradictory cultural messages that boys in our Leadership at Pearson United World College, where young people from dozens of countries come together to culture often absorb. She suggested he write a book on this topic, and she would edit it. Since then, she has worked explore personal and global issues in a consensus-based community. When not leading programs, you can find Jay closely with Barry, editing three of his books, including the well-received Boysmarts: Mentoring Boys for Success in at his sit-spot learning bird language, fixing his bike, playing the banjo, singing in a community choir, getting dirty Schools. Now a grandmother of a seven-year-old boy, she continues to be absorbed with the challenges that males in the garden, or climbing trees. face on their journeys to manhood. psyl.ca/ kpu.ca/arts/english mentoringboys.com/boy_smarts.html

Panelist: Panelist: Calvin Tiu Fiona Whittington-Walsh Calvin “Kalvonix” Tiu is a rapper, poet, and motivational speaker. Diagnosed with Fiona Whittington-Walsh is currently the chair of the Department of Sociology at Cerebral Palsy at 12 months, Calvin had many obstacles to face and overcome. In Kwantlen Polytechnic University where she teaches a wide range of courses, including elementary school, he became an easy target for bullies. On the worst days, he would cry courses relating to media and popular culture. Her research interests involve the and ask why he had to be diagnosed with a physical disability that separated him from intersection of gender, race, and disability in connection to media. She is currently the his peers. In dark times like these, his parents always showed their love and affection. Vice-President of Inclusion BC, a provincial non-profit organization that strives for the At the tender age of 12, Calvin’s cousin introduced him to Eminem’s music for the first time. Inspired by how full inclusion of people with developmental disabilities in all aspects of life. Her current research is The Bodies of the rapper took the struggles and negativity in his life and put them into words, Calvin began to write rhymes Film Project, a collaborative, participatory research project with people with disabilities that examines disability of his own. Having rapped for a decade now, “Kalvonix” has made over 25 self-produced albums, worked with representations in Hollywood films. Grammy winning producer Chin Injeti, performed for the 2010 Winter Games, started his own Outreach Program teaching students the value of self-expression, gotten his essay and educational rap album published in an online kpu.ca/arts/sociology undergraduate journal, and, most recently, received Surrey’s 2015 Top 25 Under 25 Award. As an English Major/ Counseling Minor at KPU, Calvin hopes to show others that, with confidence and passion, one can reach anything. inclusionbc.org/ soundcloud.com/calvin-kalvonix-tiu kpu.ca/arts/english/outreach KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

“Peace Officer is a feature documentary about the Special Guest: increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William ‘Dub’ Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first William "Dub" SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later. Driven by an Lawrence obsessed sense of mission, Dub uses his own investigative skills to uncover the truth in this and other recent officer- William J. “Dub” Lawrence was a proud Marine, police officer, and involved shootings in his community while tackling the youngest sheriff that Davis County, Utah, had ever elected—a larger questions about the changing face of peace officers seasoned beacon behind the badge who also founded the state’s nationwide.” first-ever SWAT program in 1975. But when that very same SWAT unit shot his own son-in-law to death after a 12-hour standoff on peaceofficerfilm.com September 22, 2008, everything changed. The veteran lawman retired to run his own sewage cleaning business and dedicate his off-hours to determining what police were hiding about that fateful night. Lawrence got his start in policing in 1971. He'd just served two years in the Marines, had recently married, and was attending Brigham Young University, when a neighbor—who also happened to be the police chief in the town of Bountiful—told him about an opening in his department and encouraged him to apply. Lawrence did, got the job, and switched his focus from business classes to justice administration. In 1974, he was hired to perform executive security for the Mormon Church. Shortly thereafter, he saw that the Republican sheriff of Davis County was running unopposed. Despite having logged just three Filmmakers: and a half years as a cop, Lawrence filed papers to run as a Democrat in 1976. He surprised everyone director, producer, cinematographer when he won. Scott Christopherson Lawrence says his tenure as sheriff didn't win him many friends. In addition to the SWAT team, he director, producer, cinematographer established a paramedic unit within the police department, which didn't sit well with the fire department. Brad Barber Lawrence also disbanded the police department's anti-narcotics unit, which he says took up too many producer, executive producer resources and placed too high a priority on drug enforcement. He also made a number of high-profile Dave Lawrence arrests of public officials (including the superintendent of the highway patrol at the time, who was executive producer arrested on a DWI charge) and refused to let them off. Sterling Van Wagenen Lawrence says that his philosophy—that the law applies equally to everyone—is the reason he only editor served for one term. Ultimately, he says, he had made too many enemies, and he lost his bid for re- Renny McCauley election in 1978. Since then, Lawrence has continued to dabble in politics, winning a campaign for county original score commissioner in 1988 and even running for Congress and the U.S. Senate. Today he is officially retired, Micah Dahl Anderson but policing remains his passion.

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Panelist: Panelist: Jennifer Allan Lorimer Shenher Jennifer Allan is a First Nations activist who is known across Canada for her Lorimer Shenher (aka Lori) was born and raised in Calgary, living there until moving advocacy work on Native Rights, Prisoners’ Rights, Missing and Murdered to Vancouver in 1991. Lorimer’s first love has always been writing, and he worked Survival Sex Workers, and Missing Native Women. as a copy runner for the Calgary Herald before venturing off into the world of weekly newspapers in rural Alberta, working as a reporter and photographer covering the junior hockey, local crime In Vancouver, she's best known as the founder of Vancouver's Cop Watch, a police watchdog group, and and political beats. Vancouver Cop Block, a decentralized project supported by a diverse group of individuals united by their shared goal of police accountability. He joined the Vancouver Police Department as a constable in 1991, taking assignments in Patrol, Communications, the Prostitution Task Force, the Strike Force, Homicide/Missing Persons, Diversity Jenn has appeared on many radio shows and news programs about the radical ways she goes about Relations, Financial Crime, and the Threat Assessment Unit, including numerous undercover assignments. exposing police violence and getting justice for victims of police brutality. In 2013, Lorimer took medical leave from policing to receive treatment for a Post Traumatic Stress Injury and twitter.com/vancopblock continues to work toward recovery. In 2015, Greystone Books published That Lonely Section of Hell: The Botched Investigation of a Serial Killer Who Almost Got Away, a memoir of working on Vancouver’s Missing and Murdered Women file. It was named a Panelist: 2015 Globe & Mail Top 100 Book. In 2015, Lorimer began a gender transition to male. He is currently pursuing an MA in Professional Wade Deisman Communications at Royal Roads University. He lives with his family in Vancouver. See Drone section for Wade Deisman's biography. Panelist:

Panelist: Jeff Shantz Jeff Shantz (Ph.D. York University, Toronto) is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He currently teaches Matt Hutchinson community advocacy, human rights, elite deviance, contemporary sociological Matt Hutchinson holds an Associate of Arts degree in Criminology from approaches, and critical theory. Shantz is the author of numerous books, including Commonist Tendencies: Kwantlen Polytechnic University and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Mutual Aid Beyond Communism (Punctum, 2013) and Green Syndicalism: An Alternative Red/Green Vision Political Science from Simon Fraser University. His research interests include (Syracuse University Press, 2012). He is the editor of Beyond Capitalism: Building Democratic Alternatives for international political economy of development, intrastate conflict, and security sector reform. Today and the Future (Bloomsbury, 2013, with José Brendan Mcdonald), Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance (Algora, 2010), and Protest and Punishment: The Repression of Resistance in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization (Carolina Academic Press, 2012). Shantz is the founder of theCritical Criminology Working Group and the founding editor of the journal Radical Criminology. Scholarly interests include critical theories, migration, critical surveillance studies, corporate crime, transnational crime, and social movements. Samples of his writing may be found at jeffshantz.ca. kpu.ca/arts/criminology radicalcriminology.org/ KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

“There is more interest in food these days than Special Guest: ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of Pablo Godoy wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually Pablo Godoy is a life-long social justice activist. As a child, he began harassed or even enslaved—all within the borders his activism with Free the Children, and as an adolescent, he launched of the United States. Food Chain$ reveals the human Y.C.H.A.N.GE, a non-profit aimed at using creative arts to engage cost in our food supply and the complicity of large and motivate at-risk youth. By 15, he was heavily involved in his buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. community and workplace. Today, Pablo is known as a spoken word Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger— poet and an arts educator with extensive background in community earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous and youth engagement. He is currently a Vice President for the power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 Ontario Federation of Labour, the founder and National Co-ordinator for Students Against Migrant decades they have drained revenue from their supply Exploitation (S.A.M.E.) as well as a National Representative for UFCW Canada. chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to

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KDocs gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of UFCW Canada in making Pablo’s participation possible.

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Panelist: Panelist: Mike Bomford Kent Mullinix Mike Bomford has returned to BC from Kentucky, where he spent 10 years at Kent Mullinix is the Director, Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at Kwantlen Kentucky State University (KSU), leading research, extension, and teaching Polytechnic University. Before joining KPU, Kent held the Endowed Joint Chair programs related to organic agriculture, with an emphasis on small farms. in Pomology and was an Associate Professor, Department of Horticulture and Before going to Kentucky, he completed a PhD at West Virginia University, conducting companion Landscape Architecture, Washington State University. He was concurrently Professor and Director planting research on a newly-certified organic farm. He grew up the son of a District Agriculturalist of Agriculture Programs at Wenatchee Valley College. Prior, he was a horticulture research specialist among the expansive grain farms of BC’s Peace River region and earned degrees in plant science and (fruit and nut crops) for the Universities of Missouri, Minnesota, and Kentucky. His specific areas of agricultural pest management at UBC and SFU. A passionate teacher, Mike helped launch a new research and other scholarly work include development of ecologically sound, human-intensive food Sustainable Agriculture degree program at the University of Kentucky in 2006; followed by a new crop production methods, development of bio-regional agri-food systems, and family-based agriculture Master of Science in Environmental Studies at KSU in 2010; and a new Bachelor of Agriculture, Food revitalization. Additionally, Kent is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems at and Environment degree at KSU in 2012. In 2013, he was given his College’s Outstanding Teacher the University of British Columbia and serves on the editorial board for the North American Colleges and award and the USDA’s Honor Award for Excellence. He looks forward to applying this experience Teachers of Agriculture Journal. at KPU during the growth and development its new Sustainable Agriculture degree program. Mike Kent attended the University of Missouri where he earned a B.S. in Agriculture (major in horticulture is very interested in the intersection between food and energy. He has explored energy consumption with emphasis on fruit and vegetable production), M.S. in Horticulture (specializing in Pomology), and greenhouse gas emissions associated with farming and food systems, and experimented with and Ph.D. in Agriculture Education (curriculum and program development, crop sciences, and renewable energy production techniques for small farms. soil conservation). He also earned a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Plant Science (specializing in integrated pest management). He is a Professional Agrologist with the British Columbia kpu.ca/isfs Institute of Agrologists. Kent has developed many technical, incumbent workforce and undergraduate education programs and is currently engaged in implementation of the Bachelor of Applied Science—Sustainable Agriculture curriculum at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Additionally, he supervises research and serves on Panelist: committees for graduate students. Kent has lived and worked on a diversified family farm in central Missouri, owned and operated Felix Martinez (with his family for 15 years) a pear orchard on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains, and for 14 years provided direct oversight for the planning, establishment, and management of a 45-acre Felix Martinez is the National Representative, Western Provinces for the organically farmed apple, sweet cherry, and peach teaching and demonstration orchard in United Food and Commercial Workers’ Union. Felix has worked with foreign north central Washington. agricultural workers since 2008. In 2012, he joined UFCW Canada’s struggle to improve the living and working conditions of the foreign agricultural workers kpu.ca/isfs by informing them of their rights, helping them organize, and pushing for a nactateachers.org/journal.html change of policies within the temporary foreign worker program. bcia.com/ ufcw.ca KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

“As tuition rates spiral beyond reach and student loan Special Guest: debt passes $1 trillion (more than credit card debt), Ivory Tower asks: Is college worth the cost? From the halls of Harvard, to public colleges in financial crisis, Kathy Corrigan to Silicon Valley, filmmaker Andrew Rossi assembles Kathy Corrigan was elected MLA for Burnaby-Deer Lake in 2009 and an urgent portrait of a great American institution serves as Official Opposition Deputy Chair and spokesperson for Advanced at the breaking point. Through profiles at Arizona Education. State, Cooper Union, and San Jose State—among several others—Ivory Tower reveals how colleges in A strong advocate for public education, Kathy served three terms on the the United States, long regarded as leaders in higher Burnaby Board of Education (1999-2008) and was board chair in 2007 and education, came to embrace a business model that 2008. She served on numerous district committees and was a member of the often promotes expansion over quality learning. But BC School Trustees' Provincial Council. along the way we also find unique programs, from Kathy is a lawyer and public policy researcher by profession. She has also Stanford to the free desert school Deep Springs to the edited a legal journal and has written about privatization and trade agreements. historically black all women’s college Spelman, where As a long-time community volunteer, Kathy spent many years serving on parent advisory committees, the potential for life-changing college experiences the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association, the Burnaby & New Westminster Ringette Association, the endure. Ultimately, Ivory Tower asks, What price will Lakeside Advisory Board, and other organizations. society pay if higher education cannot revolutionize She and husband Derek Corrigan have lived in Burnaby since 1977. They have four grown children. college as we know it and evolve a sustainable economic model?” kathycorrigan.ca/ takepart.com/ivorytower Filmmakers: writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor Andrew Rossi producer Kate Novack composer Ian Hutquist cinematographer Andrew Coffman cinematographer Bryan Sarkinen editor Chad Beck editor Christopher Branca KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

Panelist: Panelist: Faith Auton-Cuff Kari Michaels Dr. Faith Auton Cuff has been involved in the circle of interdisciplinary learning Kari Michaels is a student at Kwantlen studying philosophy. She co-founded most of her life. She was educated and trained as a nurse, completed two the kick-ass feminist club (WOOW: Women Organizing Opportunities bachelor degrees (music and psychology) (University of Winnipeg), a master's for Women) to smash patriarchy and provide leadership and mentorship degree in counselling psychology (Gonzaga University), and a doctorate degree opportunities for women on campus. She was an elected member of the in clinical psychology (Seattle Pacific University). The rhythm of her professional journey reflects University’s Senate for four years. Kari holds a full-time job as Records over 25 years of experience within various college, university, hospital, and community health service Coordinator and Advocate for the Kwantlen Student Association. settings involving the interdisciplinary helping professions – nursing, counselling, and teaching – with the strongest beats provided by teaching and counselling, theory and praxis, at both the undergraduate kpu.ca/arts/philosophy and graduate levels at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, SFU, and Trinity Western University. Dr. facebook.com/KPUWooW/ Auton-Cuff has been a strong advocate and leader in the development of criteria and the systematic measuring and reporting of evidence-based outcomes within academic institutions, counsellor practice, kusa.ca/ and healthcare, and has served as a mental health and addictions clinical and counsellor subject matter expert within academic, healthcare, and community leadership teams. Her scholarly places of curiosity include the study of individuals marginalized by society who experience a sense of fragmentation and loss of identity, and the study of individuals in the liminal space of transition kpu.ca/arts/edst

Panelist: Panelist: Richard Hosein Amir Mirfakhraie Richard Hosein is a KPU student currently enrolled in the Policy Studies in Amir Mirfakhraie is a Sociology faculty member at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He received his Sustainability degree program. Richard has been an involved community Ph.D. in Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, specializing in the sociology and member for many years, and he is an original co-founder of KPIRG (Kwantlen anthropology of education, with a focus on Iranian textbooks, multicultural, anti-racist, and global Public Interest Research Group) at KPU. Richard is concerned about a diverse education. Amir’s research interests include anti-oppression and anti-racism education, curriculum range of issues including poverty and climate change. Richard likes to hike and camp and be out in studies, critical pedagogy, citizenship education, and Canadian and Iranian diaspora studies. His nature during his off time. He is a jack of all trades, but master of none. He likes to cook and also research focus is on the immigration of Iranians to Canada and British Columbia, ethnic and racialized enjoys savory pies and using his slow-cooker often. diversity in Canada, anti-racist/anti-oppression pedagogies, and the construction of national identity, the family, the state and economy, “race”, ethnicity, and gender in Iranian school textbooks. kpu.ca/arts/policy-studies kpu.ca/arts/sociology kpirg.ca/ KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

“What would it be like to live alongside one of the Special Guest: shapers of human events, in their youth, before they transformed history? In Fractured Land, we follow Caleb Behn, a young Dene lawyer who may become Caleb Behn one of this generation’s great leaders, if he can Caleb Behn is Eh-Cho Dene and Dunne Za/Cree from the Treaty 8 discover how to reconcile the fractures within himself, Territory of Northeastern BC. Caleb grew up adjacent to the oil and gas his community and the world around him, blending industry, where he has witnessed from an early age the devastating modern tools of the law with ancient wisdom. As effects that the industries have had on the environment and the unique 350.org founder, Bill McKibben, puts it, “Anyone and often difficult social climate that arises when cultures clash. With the who can throw a hatchet and sue you is a force to be advent of fracking, an unconventional method of extracting oil and gas, reckoned with.” Caleb sports a Mohawk and tattoos, the toll on the land and its people has increased tenfold in the past decade. hunts moose, and wears a business suit. His father He has recently graduated from the University of Victoria with a Juris is a devout environmentalist and residential school Doctor degree and is among the first UVic Law students granted the Concentration in Environmental survivor. His mother is a top executive for the oil and Law and Sustainability. Prior to law school, he was the Oil and Gas Officer for the West Moberly First gas industry. His people, at the epicenter of some of Nations and a Lands Manager for the Saulteau First Nations. Caleb has been at the forefront of the the largest fracking operations on earth, are deeply indigenous movement, representing his people in the centuries-long battle to protect their land and, in divided. How does Caleb balance their need for turn, the very core of their culture. jobs with his sacred duty to defend their territory? He has arrived at a key moment in history, sees the contradictions, and wants to reconcile them.”

fracturedland.com Filmmakers: co-director, co-producer, writer digital strategist & community manager Fiona Rayher Hilary Henegar co-director, co-producer, director editor of photography Jocelyne Chaput Damien Gillis cinematographer executive producer Adam Myhil Mark Achbar executive producer Charlotte Engel executive producer, writer Daniel Conrad story editor Manfred Becker KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

Panelist: KDocs's Sponsors, Supporters, Brandon Gabriel and Partners

Brandon Gabriel is a multi-talented, academically and West Coast First Nations traditionally GOLD SPONSORS: trained contemporary visual artist and designer who specializes in various forms of painting, drawing, illustration, mixed media sculpture, interior and exterior architectural design concepts, and graphic design. Brandon’s work is a fusion between traditional and contemporary West Coast First Nations art and design and Classical Western art and design concepts and traditions. Brandon was recognized as an artistic prodigy by his community and began his professional career as an artist when he was just 14 years old. He has over 20 years of professional experience. Brandon was educated at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Marketing, Fine Arts, and Cultural Anthropology, and then studied at Emily Carr University SILVER SPONSOR: where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Arts. In addition to his studies, he was recognized in 1999 by the former and late Governor General of Canada, Right Honourable Romeo LeBlanc, for his contributions for artistic excellence in the First Nations artistic community when he was just 20 years old. He has had much international recognition for his work, including the purchase of one of his works by the City of Seattle’s Permanent Art Collection for the Museum of Seattle (2005), as well as recurring exhibitions in the United Kingdom. Brandon was recently named TD-Canada Trust’s Langley International Festival Society’s “Ambassador of Diversity 2012” for his outstanding achievements in arts and culture and representation of his community, the Kwantlen First Nation. His works have been exhibited and collected in Hong Kong, U.S.A, the United Kingdom, and across Canada. BRONZE SPONSORS: facebook.com/legacygabrielconcepts/ facebook.com/brandon.gabriel.01

Panelist: COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Paul Richard

Paul Richard is the coordinator of the Environmental Protection Program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, a position he’s held for over ten years. His main interest as an environmental teacher is to demonstrate that there is hope despite the bad news. He also carries out a bit of research in waste management. He is also an active member of Sierra MEDIA SPONSORS: Club of BC, Lower Mainland group. kpu.ca/science/environment sierraclub.bc.ca/local-groups/lower-mainland KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 KWANTLEN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2016

KDocs Launches Its Community Outreach Program The KDocs team is pleased to announce the launch of its community outreach program in the fall of 2015. The goal of this initiative is to connect with students in the communities KPU serves—Richmond, Surrey, and Langley—by bringing documentaries and facilitated discussions/projects to their high school classrooms. The first community outreach workshop took the KDocs team of Janice Morris, Chris Traynor, and Greg Chan to Christa Barberis’s Social Justice 12 class at Langley Secondary School, where we screened Andrew Rossi's Ivory Tower (2014) and led a discussion about the state of higher education in North America. As a take-home assignment, Chris Traynor, KDocs the students made social media posts (via Facebook and Twitter) and short Board Member, reaction videos to the day’s social justice issues. We are looking forward to facilitates as Langley Secondary School visiting more schools in 2016. Social Justice 12 students discuss the state of higher education

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